Deborah Pearse, Beautiful Predators (Wildlife and Animal 2017)

I am most fortunate to have many beautiful birds visit my backyard but my favourites are the predatory birds, like the Tawny Frogmouth, Boobook Owls and Laughing Kookaburras featured here but there are others like the Goshawks. Many of them nest or bring their fledglings and it gives me great joy and hope to see them thrive in a world that's making it increasingly hard for them to survive.

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